Guild Wars 2

While the recent changes were a step in the right direction, I think that the point system overall is doomed to fail…

Strengths: 1. Very clear distinction between you and the players above and below you!
2. Requires players to actively play to maintain a high rank!
3. Uses your probability of winning to decide reward!

Weaknesses: 1. No distinction in MMR, in other words, going 100-90 (if you are high MMR and you are vs players in High MMR) will give you the same amount of points going 100-90(if you and your opponents are low MMR)…. This is a serious problem. In order for leaderboards to represent the best players in the game, there needs to be a distinction somehow made in the algorithm.
2. While I agree games played should matter, if in a season a player goes 500-0, and a player goes 1000-0.. Those players could both be of equal footing, but extra time allowed one player to accel above the other! I think at some point games played should not matter as long as both players are very active. For some players, especially High MMR, Q times are very high compared to Low MMR players, meaning certain players can actually play more games per hour.
3. While awarding players for beating players that are better than them is good, it is somewhat unfair to high MMR players. In other words, high MMR players (Who in theory are the best and should be at the top of the leaderboards) can only gain 1 pt per win, while low MMR players can gain up to 3 pts. per win.

Solutions: MMR needs to be incorporated somehow… (This one I don’t know how to fix)

Add game caps per day! IE after 10 games, you gain significantly less points or none at all (This accumulates, IE if you don’t play for three days, you can come back and gain up to 40 games worth of points the 4th day [to enable players to join a season late]}
~~~ Downside to this is after 10 or X games players will not have an incentive to play~~~

Add win streaks- High MMR players can only gain 1 pt per game, in order to allow them to compete with low MMR players, award extra points for win streaks…. be it 1 every 3 games , or an exponential system, 1,1,2,4,8, a bonus system [1 bonus, +2 bonus etc], or something along the lines of after 5 games, each game is worth double

Thanks!